Hi

Just made the switch from IBS to start working on A dnn based version. I started playing around with containers and here is one container im using for a simple store. Wooden display cabinet

I plan on releasing lots more dnn containers so people can start spicing up there portals. However I am running into a few problems and questions:

Anyone allready made it so that you can have the moduletitle in the container, I would thinnk of something like [TITLE]

When designing more advanced container layouts I run into problems with the length of the string I guess, if i have big html layouts it truncates the string. I have plenty of experience with IBS this is my first day with DNN, can anyone help me where it is that the string returned from the edit container is truncated. some code samples would be helpfull.

Also check out our programmable templated content management module

Well I hope someone can clear this up for me so I can start on my even more complex container designs.

The problem with the Title comes from the fact that the title is an included (child) control of the [module] This is something that may change in the future. Joe Brinkman created an enhancement that will hack a work around in the code but then you have to manually turn the display title off for each module that uses a container that uses [Title]. See www.tag-software.net

As for the container getting truncated its a 4000 char field in the DB I think. (going from memory)

Jeremy

Hi

I will look into that.

Another question for ibs we have built a skinning engine that will skin modules portal and tabs based on very enhanced version of the wilson masterpages, so not html based but usercontrol based, which means that i can have not only different layouts but also differnt codebehinds for each of the templates.

I was thinking about building this into dnn as well bu i heard about skinning comming in next version of DNN, anything you can tell me on which direction the skinning of dnn is going will this be the simple xml/css/html skinning or will dnn also use the masterpages idea?

I can't tell you too much yet, There's a new idea in the works from Dave Haggard that many on the core team are waiting to see it in action. It should be done very soon, if it works as planned (or at least as I understand the concept), there will be options for multiple skinning engines (html, xml, ascx, etc.)(perhaps even something like master pages - I just can't say for sure yet).

An updated newly formatted roadmap will be availible soon that highlights many of the areas of work that are underway currently.

Jeremy

Just because I'm too lazy to re-type, here's the info on changing the current container size limitations:

http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=329761

Regards,

Richard

Thanks

Just what I needed, I thought I fixed it myself but I forgot the storedproc and maxsize update ah well its all working now.

Expect my more complex layout containers to appear soon. Your site actually gave me the idea of making some free ones.

:)

likewise, I was inspired by the many fine artists in the DNN world, nice to pass something along. Will be looking forward to see what you come up with :)

Regards,

Richard

Jeremy,

"I can't tell you too much yet, There's a new idea in the works from Dave Haggard that many on the core team are waiting to see it in action."

A long time ago idea's like this were posted in the forum to discuss them with the community. Good old times are gone. Didn't want to bring back that discussion again. Just my thoughts after reading your answer.

Tom

HI

yeah one of the reasons I switched to DNN is the fact that this was more of a community where people wer doing continuous development. This would be much better instead of creating everything myself, inner module commincation and a total skinning engine for all parts of ibs and lots more enhancements to the ibs code that were allready in DNN.

Well ill check it all out later and see which things i have to recode to dnn and which things are allready in there. just added some more containners

Tom if I had ANY more information than that I would post it, but that's literally all I have.

Sorry,
Jeremy

Armand, those last two are sharp. Great effort on this.

Tom, I too don't have anymore info on the latest effort by David than Jeremy already posted. I'm sure there will be lots of posts when David finishes up with this latest enhancement.

Thanks
Bruce

Great job on the containers, you're inspiring me to make up a few more now with a new rendering tool that I just got for adobe :)

--Richard

Hi

Well thanks, also interested to see what you will come up with next.

Right now im working on an enhancement that renders the moduletitles as real images allows you to better integrate the fonts and styles to fit the container. Will be my first gift to the dnn community now that I switched over from IBS :) ( altho i do like my totally skinnable IBS but hey DNN got skinning coming as well ;)

and more containers are in the works

Okay, I added a new one. A very different look from the traditional container styles.

Menu: DotNetNuke -> Containers. (after you login)

:)

--Richard.

Nice

Yeah I have a few more up my sleeve as well but they are in dev stages. I have like 5 new sites to finish and a bunch of ibs rewrites still to be done.

But your containers will definately benefit my new enhancement, im working on a dll that will allow you to drop in a text image with any given background in any given direction. dll is done, ibs integration is done but now i have to look into how to incorporta this one into container.